Dear Dr. Mshana,<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Dr Yassin Mshana <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ymshana2003@gmail.com">ymshana2003@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Fellow Africans and friends of 360 degrees Development,<div><br></div><div>Is this kind of stuff going on supposed to do good to the image of Africa? I ma afraid to say openly say NO!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Does it mean that an opinion is the fact? NO - unless based on justifiable observation (IMHO)</div>
<div><br></div><div>What is DCA? It is a Business which is aiming to promote the Internet-based business while making the presence of Africa and its potential to fairly compete in the Internet-based economy (which interprets as one of the pillars of ICANN)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I do not think that this kind of communication is doing Africa any good.....if an objection has been made (which is everybody's right to do so) there should be no need to share the concerns in the open media like this...it just adds petrol on fire! everybody will start shouting-out-aloud! In that case it will tarnish the image and professionally put us on question...</div>
<div><br></div><div>What is troubling me (as an African) is that, we believe that there is no smoke without fire - can the accusations made be responded to in a professional manner please? </div></blockquote><div><br></div>
<div>The professional manner you seek is at this url:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/DirCan/At-Large+Candidate-Community+Forum+-+EURALO">https://community.icann.org/display/DirCan/At-Large+Candidate-Community+Forum+-+EURALO</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I believe the url I sent earlier was not the correct one.</div><div><br></div><div>I leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine which attitude is professional.</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br>
Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>
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